. Stories of a country doctor . feel well. I lost no sleep on Gutzweilers ac-count, but I was intensely amused at his agony. It wasas bad as a case of cramp colic. But, he came too often. He was occup3ing toomuch of my time. I couldnt afford to have a circus inmy house every day even if it did amuse me. I lost pa-tience with Gutzweiler and so, when I saw him comingone afternoon I met him in the front yard and, in a fewwords, told him that he must not come to my house onthat business any more. He threatened to move my patient and I quietlytold him to move her, and that it would kill her and the
. Stories of a country doctor . feel well. I lost no sleep on Gutzweilers ac-count, but I was intensely amused at his agony. It wasas bad as a case of cramp colic. But, he came too often. He was occup3ing toomuch of my time. I couldnt afford to have a circus inmy house every day even if it did amuse me. I lost pa-tience with Gutzweiler and so, when I saw him comingone afternoon I met him in the front yard and, in a fewwords, told him that he must not come to my house onthat business any more. He threatened to move my patient and I quietlytold him to move her, and that it would kill her and thenhe w^ould go to jail. Then he got madder and animad-verted in very tortuous and torturing mixed Englishand German on the laws of this country. 334 People Who Annoy Doctors. I said to him in a quiet, suggestive and somewhataggravating way: Ill tell you what Td do if I were you, Gutzweiler. Vat 30U do? he asked. I would go back to Germany. You can go backto Germany and work for fifteen cents a day and eat ^2Sa^^^^^^ spoilt kraut. .^^^^^^^ have a / real good time -almost as good as the hogs do out here! This was too m u c h. G ut zw e i ler got steaming hot and grew insulting. I seized a gar- ^, d e n rake ^ which had ~ been left asrainst a tree i dond skin some flints, nudder. in the front3ard and made a feigned desperate pass at him and said: You miserable old skin flint, if 30U dont get outof m^ yard I will break you up so small that there willnot be enough left of 3-ou to address a letter to ! ■ I done vant no letters! who said I vant letters vas Who Annoy Doctors. 335 a pig lie; imd I done skin some flints, nudder! You go gubbledy, gobbledy, gibbled}, rar-r-r-r, rar-r-r- zt-zit—as he disappeared around the corner, his mixedEnglish and German sounding like a combination of thenoises of escaping steam and a wooden sorghum mill. I dont know whether Gutzweiler ever collected hisrent or not, nor do I care. I know that I did not getmy fee in the case. Dont care for tha
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